As I mentioned yesterday, my Stampin’ Up! order came on Wednesday but I was too busy to play with it. I had a card class last night but even though it finished after ten, I still wanted to play (and I’m happy that I have another 9 Christmas cards made due to the class). I pulled out a stamp set at random because it was so hard to choose and Flowering Fields came to hand. This is a Sale-a-bration set which means that it’s one of the items that you can choose for free after spending $50 before shipping and handling from January 5 to March 31. How did I get it already? I’m a demonstrator and we get to see the new stuff a month early – you can too, just go to the join my team tab and click on the join now button!

This card features last year’s in colours which I’m panicking about. They will be retired next June and I love them so I’m using them a lot and dreading their retirement. I stamped the flower in mossy meadow five times across the very vanilla cardstock and then using a blender pen added some hello honey and blackberry bliss to the flowers. I’m sure that the flowers aren’t “supposed” to be these colours but it’s my card, right? They can be any colour that us cardmakers like! I matted the very vanilla on mossy meadow and then put that on a blackberry bliss card base. Interestingly, to me at least, the card didn’t want a sentiment. I tried adding one at the bottom but all that did was make the space at the top look too big. Design is a fascinating subject and I’m sure would be interesting to read about but I just go with what feels right to me. As you should.

The envelope is lined using the envelope liner framelits and the retired backgrounds DSP to create coordinating stationary.

I couldn’t add the stamp set to the scrolling store since it’s not generally available yet.

See you tomorrow,

Liz